If a woman decides she likes me, it would behoove her to take into consideration that my art has had a strong influence on the type of person I am.
In every detail a city should reflect that human beings are sacred and that they are equal.
If we’re going to talk about transport, I would say that the great city is not the one that has highways, but one where a child on a tricycle or bicycle can go safely everywhere.
An advanced city is not one where even the poor use cars, but rather one where even the rich use public transport.
In Bogotá, our goal was to make a city for all the children. The measure of a good city is one where a child on a tricycle or bicycle can safely go anywhere. If a city is good for children, it will be good for everybody else. Over the last 80 years we have been making cities much more for cars' mobility than for children’s happiness.
A bikeway is a symbol that shows that a citizen on a $30 bicycle is equally important as a citizen on a $30,000 car.
The essence of the conflict today, really, is cars versus people…We can have a city that is very friendly to cars, or a city that is very friendly to people. We cannot have both.
I didn't really feel I was being hurt, but you could feel it.
In my mind, as long as I did what was right for me, I was cool. But that's not the way it works. You have to think about other people and take their feelings into account.
I never hated a man enough to give him diamonds back.
The Marine Corps taught me that I could achieve my goals. In short, the Marines made me believe in myself.